Hotel-register desk.



No. 757,920. PATENTED APR. 19, 1904. J. I. HAYGRAPT. HUTEL REGISTERDESK.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 27. 1904.

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Patented April 19, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN IVAN HAYCRAFT, OF LINNEUS, MISSOURI.

HOTEL-REGISTER DESK.

SEECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,920, dated April19, 1904.

Application filed January 27, 190A. Serial No. 190,807. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, J oHN IVAN HAYORAFT,

a citizen of the United States, residing -at Linneus, in the county ofLinn and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Hotel-Register Desks, of which the following is a specification. Myinvention is an improvement in hotelregister desks for holding registersor similar books in hotels or other places; and the invention consistsin certain novel constructions and combinations of parts as will behereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a'perspective View of my desk. Fig. 2 is asectional view on about line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan viewof tbe desk, parts being broken away. Fig. i is a top plan view of thebasesection partly broken away. Fig. is a detail section on about line 55 of Fig. l, and Fig. 6 is a detail section on about line 6 6 of Fig. l.

The device includes the desk proper or top A and the base B, supportingthe desk by means presently described. The top A has its sides A' and A2sloped from the upper edge of the top outwardly and downwardly, and saidsloping edges are supplied with spaces for advertisements, and at theopposite front corners of the top A are provided boxes C for toothpicksand D for matches. The other corners of the top A are provided withboxes E and F, the former receiving an ink-well and the latter a bell ffor use by the clerk. The rear edge a' of the desk A has thedownwardly-sloping portions Gr G' adjacent to the boxes E and F, suchportions G G being divided into spaces for advertisements, and betweenthem I provide compartments H for cards, I for envelops, and J for pens.The spaces for advertisements on the sloping edges of the topand at .fron the faces of the match and toothpick boxes may be supplied withmetallic strips K or suitable moldings to form frames for theadvertising-cards, as will be understood from Fig. l. rIhe frames ormolding can be easily removed to insert or change the advertisements.The upper surface of the top may be finished in leather or otherwise tosuit.

Manifestly any desired form of register may be employed for thetable-top, which is supplied at its lower corner or corners with claspsL, pivoted at L' and actuated by a spring L2 and operating to hold theleaves of the register when adjusted as indicated in dotted lines. inFig. 6.

In operation the register-desk is used upon a desk or counter, asillustrated in Fig. 1, and it is desirable to turn the register soit canbe made to face the clerk or the guest, and to facilitate thisIrnountthetop A rotatably upon the base B and connect said parts by the meanswhich I will now describe.

To the under side of the desk Ais fixed the ring M, which is providedwith the depending circular flange M', provided on its inner edge at itslower end with the rack or teeth M2 and above the same with the annulargroove M3.

The base B is below and concentric with-the ring M and forms a track onwhich the iiange M' of the latter rests. Pinions B are journaled inconnection with the base B, have their teeth b' meshed with the rack M2,and are provided above the teeth b' with fianges b, which operatein thegroove M3 of the ring Mhold ing the ring M in connection with the base Band turning freely to avoid friction as the desk or top is turned.Antifriction-balls L2 are provided below the pinions B', and the lattterare -journaled on screws B2, passing down through the pinions and thebaseB and threaded at their lower ends. The feet B3, of rubber or thelike, are screwed on the threaded ends of the screws B2 and form pads torest on the polished or other surface of the desk, counter, or the like.The base B has within its ring-like portion a series of cross-bars B4,disposed, preferably, in the form of a star, the pad-feet B3 beingarranged at the points of the star.

Adjacent to the upper edge of the side A' the top A is provided with aslot a, through which is drawn the blotter N, which consists,

as shown, of a blotting-paper or other bibulous sheet on the under sideof one end of a fabric-carrier N', which is wound at its other end on aspring-roller N2, journaled to the under side of the top. By thisconstruction the blotter can be readily drawn forward to IOC positionfor use and will when released be retracted by the spring-roller, aswill be readily understood from Figs. 1 and 5; but the blotter N N N2shown herein forms the subjectmatter of a separate application, SerialNo. 190,808, filed January 27, 1904.

It will be noticed from Fig. 2 that the edges of the top A depend,surrounding the base B, and practically exclude lthe said base from viewwhen the register-desk is in position for use, as shown in Fig. l of thedrawings.

The device can be cheaply made or can be finished in any degree ofelegance, and the spaces for the advertisements will not only cover the'initial cost of the desk, but will prove a source of income to theproprietor of the desk.

It will be, noticed that by providing for the advertisements, ink-well,cards, &c., in the register-desk I save the space ordinarily taken up bysuch devices on the counter or desk, and thus increase the counter-spacewithout restricting the advertising-space ordinarily supplied byl padsor blotters on the desk.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

l. The improvement in register-desks herein described comprising the tophaving the compartments for cards and envelops'and the corner-boxes forthe ink-well, bell, toothpicks and matches and the downwardly-slopingsurfaces for advertisements, the ring secured to the under side of thetop and provided with the depending circular ange having on its innerface the cog-teeth and above the same the annular groove the baseunderlying said ring and forming a track for same, the pinions meshingwith the cog-teeth of the flange and having top flanges operating in theannular groove, the screws forming journals for the pinion andprojecting through and below the base and the pad-feet screwed on saidscrew substantially as set forth.

2. A register-desk comprising the base, the screwsin the base andprojecting above and below the same the cushion-posts on the lower endof the screws and supporting the base, the pinions journaled on theupper end of the screws, the top having a ring resting on the base andprovided with a circular rack meshed by the pinions and means holdingthe base and ring together substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the desk-top the ring on the under side of sameand having the depending circular fiange toothed on its inner side atits lower edge and provided in said side above its teeth with an annulargroove, the base and the pinions journaled to the base and meshing withthe teethof said ange and having flanges projecting into the annulargroove thereof substantially as set forth.

4:. The combination of the desk-top, the ring on the under side thereofand having the rack or cog-ring and the annular groove above the same,the base, the screws passed through the base and projecting above andbelow the same, the pad-feet screwed on the lower ends of the screws andthe pinions on the uppervends of the screws and meshing with thecog-ring and having flanges entering the groove above said cog-ringsubstantially as set forth.

JQHN IVAN HAYCRAFT.

Witnesses:

J. J. LEDwrDciu,V E. F. FRIEDELL.

